jal76
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Like most of the folks reading this I have a fairly healthy and equally diverse Hot Toys collection. It runs the gamut from Star Wars to Marvel to DC and anything and everything in between.
I used to have a huge collection of Sideshow Collectibles Star Wars figures and only a few pieces from Hot Toys. As the Hot Toys collection grew it reached the point that I could barely stand to look at the Sideshow figures because there was such a huge dip in quality between the Hot Toys side of my modest collectibles room and the Sideshow side. So the Sideshow pieces had to go and my 1/6 collecting became exclusively Hot Toys products. As the Hot Toys collection grew I even moved away from statues because they did not have the same visual appeal to me as Hot Toys figures and I crossed over into the realm of being a true and unapologetic Hot Toys loyalist. That Hot Toys logo is like a seal of quality for me and if I like the prototype pictures my experience with Hot Toys has been so strong that I feel comfortable taking a leap of faith and ordering or pre-ordering without in hand pictures or having seen a piece in person.
With the recent and tempting news and pictures of the Fight Club and Ghostbusters figures from Blitzway I have been tempted to branch out and embrace, for the first time in a long time, figures that....heaven forbid...were not produced by Hot Toys! The fact that they were sculpted by K.A. Kim who has been responsible for sculpting some of my favorite figures from Hot Toys was the final thing that wore me down.
My experience, and this could all be personal opinion, is that what I see in that first prototype picture from Hot Toys is pretty much what I end up getting (if not better). The sculpts are great, the paint is remarkable...they are consistent!
I would sometimes have a very...different experience with Sideshow Collectibles products...
I have never seen a Blitzway figure in person...just prototype pictures of Carlito and Tony Montana and a few online reviews which have all been raves. I am interested in opinions from experience in how these figures truly look in hand. Do they hold up to the prototypes? Are the paint apps as lifelike as they appear to be in the pictures...? Sorry for the long post but if you got this far I would love to hear you weigh in!
I used to have a huge collection of Sideshow Collectibles Star Wars figures and only a few pieces from Hot Toys. As the Hot Toys collection grew it reached the point that I could barely stand to look at the Sideshow figures because there was such a huge dip in quality between the Hot Toys side of my modest collectibles room and the Sideshow side. So the Sideshow pieces had to go and my 1/6 collecting became exclusively Hot Toys products. As the Hot Toys collection grew I even moved away from statues because they did not have the same visual appeal to me as Hot Toys figures and I crossed over into the realm of being a true and unapologetic Hot Toys loyalist. That Hot Toys logo is like a seal of quality for me and if I like the prototype pictures my experience with Hot Toys has been so strong that I feel comfortable taking a leap of faith and ordering or pre-ordering without in hand pictures or having seen a piece in person.
With the recent and tempting news and pictures of the Fight Club and Ghostbusters figures from Blitzway I have been tempted to branch out and embrace, for the first time in a long time, figures that....heaven forbid...were not produced by Hot Toys! The fact that they were sculpted by K.A. Kim who has been responsible for sculpting some of my favorite figures from Hot Toys was the final thing that wore me down.
My experience, and this could all be personal opinion, is that what I see in that first prototype picture from Hot Toys is pretty much what I end up getting (if not better). The sculpts are great, the paint is remarkable...they are consistent!
I would sometimes have a very...different experience with Sideshow Collectibles products...
I have never seen a Blitzway figure in person...just prototype pictures of Carlito and Tony Montana and a few online reviews which have all been raves. I am interested in opinions from experience in how these figures truly look in hand. Do they hold up to the prototypes? Are the paint apps as lifelike as they appear to be in the pictures...? Sorry for the long post but if you got this far I would love to hear you weigh in!